The Tony Award-winning musical was previously in development at Universal Pictures with Kenny Ortega directing, but has since been taken off the shelf and put in the hands of Harvey Weinstein and the Weinstein Co.
Logline: The story focuses on three days in the upper Manhattan neighborhood of Washington Heights, where a bodega owner who inherited his grandmother’s lottery windfall plots his retirement to a Dominican Republic beach. As he bids farewell to his customers on the block, he becomes conflicted about leaving behind a group that has become family.
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